'Flood' definitions:
Definition of 'flood'
(from WordNet)
noun
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion]
noun
An overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent]
noun
Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography [syn: flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood]
noun
A large flow [syn: flood, overflow, outpouring]
noun
The act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: flood, flowage]
noun
The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare [syn: flood tide, flood, rising tide] [ant: ebbtide]
verb
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp]
verb
Cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
verb
Supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply, glut]
verb
Become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
Definition of 'Flood'
From: GCIDE
- Flood \Flood\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.]
- 1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flood'
From: GCIDE
- Flood \Flood\ (fl[u^]d), n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. fl[=o]d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl[=o]d, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. fl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. fl[=o]dus; from the root of E. flow. [root]80. See Flow, v. i.]
- 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. [1913 Webster]
- A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. [1913 Webster]
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Menstrual disharge; menses. --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
- Flood anchor (Naut.), the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
- Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
- Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
- Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
- Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
- The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'flood'
From: Easton
- Flood an event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See DELUGE.) In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word "flood" (R.V., "river") means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.
Synonyms of 'flood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- acres,
- addition,
- advance,
- affluence,
- aggrandizement,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplification,
- amplitude,
- appreciation,
- arc,
- arc light,
- army,
- ascent,
- augmentation,
- avalanche,
- bags,
- ballooning,
- barrels,
- be prodigal with,
- bloating,
- bonanza,
- boom,
- boost,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- brash,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- bumper crop,
- burst of rain,
- bushel,
- cascade,
- cataclysm,
- cataract,
- choke,
- cloudburst,
- cluster,
- cohue,
- color filter,
- copiousness,
- countlessness,
- course,
- cover,
- crescendo,
- crowd,
- crush,
- current,
- debacle,
- deluge,
- development,
- dimmer,
- dip,
- direct tide,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- drencher,
- drift,
- drown,
- duck,
- dunk,
- ebb,
- ebb and flow,
- ebb tide,
- edema,
- elevation,
- embarras de richesses,
- engulf,
- engulfment,
- enlargement,
- enough,
- excess,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- exuberance,
- fertility,
- fill,
- float,
- floats,
- flock,
- flood the market,
- flood tide,
- flooding,
- floodlight,
- flow,
- flow back,
- flow in,
- flow on,
- flow out,
- flush,
- flux,
- flux and reflux,
- foison,
- footlights,
- foots,
- fresh,
- freshet,
- full measure,
- full tide,
- fullness,
- gain,
- galaxy,
- gelatin,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- glut,
- great abundance,
- great plenty,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- gushing rain,
- heap,
- heavy rain,
- high tide,
- high water,
- hike,
- horde,
- host,
- immerse,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- inundate,
- inundation,
- issue,
- jam,
- jump,
- klieg light,
- know no bounds,
- landslide,
- lavishness,
- leap,
- legion,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- light plot,
- lights,
- limelight,
- load,
- lots,
- low tide,
- low water,
- lunar tide,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriate,
- make,
- marquee,
- mass,
- maximum,
- medium,
- mob,
- money to burn,
- more than enough,
- mountain,
- mounting,
- much,
- multiplication,
- multitude,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- neap,
- neap tide,
- Niagara,
- nimiety,
- numerousness,
- ocean,
- oceans,
- opposite tide,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- outpouring,
- overabound,
- overabundance,
- overaccumulation,
- overbounteousness,
- overbrim,
- overcopiousness,
- overdose,
- overequip,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overfurnish,
- overgrow,
- overlavish,
- overlavishness,
- overluxuriance,
- overmeasure,
- overmuchness,
- overnumerousness,
- overplentifulness,
- overplenty,
- overpopulation,
- overprofusion,
- overprovender,
- overprovide,
- overprovision,
- overrun,
- overrunning,
- oversell,
- overspill,
- overspread,
- overstock,
- oversufficiency,
- oversupply,
- overswarm,
- overwhelm,
- panoply,
- peck,
- permeate,
- plash,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- plethora,
- pour,
- pour on,
- pour out,
- pour over,
- press,
- prevalence,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- proliferation,
- pullulate,
- quantities,
- quantity,
- rabble,
- rain,
- rainburst,
- rainspout,
- rainstorm,
- raise,
- redundancy,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regurgitate,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- riot,
- riotousness,
- rip,
- riptide,
- rise,
- river,
- rout,
- ruck,
- run,
- run over,
- run riot,
- rush,
- satiety,
- saturate,
- scads,
- scud,
- sea,
- set,
- shower,
- slop,
- slosh,
- sluice,
- snowballing,
- soaker,
- soaking rain,
- solar tide,
- spate,
- spill,
- spill out,
- spill over,
- spillage,
- spot,
- spotlight,
- spout,
- spread,
- spring tide,
- stream,
- submerge,
- submersion,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- superabound,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- surfeit,
- surge,
- surge back,
- surplus,
- swamp,
- swarm,
- sweep,
- swelling,
- teem,
- teemingness,
- thalassometer,
- the Deluge,
- the Flood,
- throng,
- tidal amplitude,
- tidal current,
- tidal current chart,
- tidal flow,
- tidal range,
- tidal wave,
- tide,
- tide chart,
- tide gate,
- tide gauge,
- tide race,
- tide rip,
- tidewater,
- tideway,
- tons,
- torrent,
- torrent of rain,
- trend,
- tumescence,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- volume,
- washout,
- waterflood,
- waterspout,
- waxing,
- wealth,
- whelm,
- whelming,
- widening,
- world,
- worlds